Jots and Tittles and other Random Things

Summer Is Ending, or is it?

Crazy record temperatures
Howling hurricane-force winds,
Unprecedented fires in places
Once thought to be paradise.

Hurricane in the Pacific
Our west coast threatened,
So much rain after drought like conditions,
An unequalled disaster in the making.

So many storms, from disturbances
To named storms - a direct line
From the coast of Africa to the Gulf of Mexico
Mother Nature's fury seems to be unleashed.

All this comes when summer is supposed to be waning,
A new season soon to be upon us brings up images
Of cozy blankets and steamy hot cocoa.
But I wonder if we will have a fall season at all.

It seems prognosticators are calling for an
Unprecedented fall - as hot as summer, maybe.
With a gloomy forecast of snow,
Even in places it shouldn't exist.

Such language brings the thought of climate change;
With even the thoughts of an Ice Age.
Gloom and doom destruction, perhaps mirroring
The Movie "Day After Tomorrow".

24 lines
Written for Poet's Place
8/21/2023

Prompt ▼

Your assignment: Write a poem about summer coming to an end using connotations to inject fuller flavor into your composition.